At the doctor’s office, I was told to undress and get into a gown by the nurse. As I started to untie my...

At the doctor’s office, I was told to undress and get into a gown by the nurse. As I started to untie my...
Valentine’s Day is on Ash Wednesday this year. At first thought, they seem like an unlikely...
I am happy to say that my area has had a milder than average winter. Most of the highs have been near 40...
A water main broke on our block one pretty Sunday afternoon. I remember it was a lovely day because I was enjoying a walk and, just before the last turn onto my street, I saw the water gushing out of the curb and pouring down the street. ‘That...
After our Gargoyle Gecko, Mabel, joined the family, it became a top priority to make her tank as Gothic as possible. Afterall, you can’t have a breed of gecko named for the...
A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a...
“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s...
Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute referred to the Ascension of Our Lord as “completing the circuit.” I thought it an excellent metaphor and it set me to thinking it through...
I am not an emotional person. In fact, I think I am best described as having a cold, dead heart. A heart of stone would also be apt. I have always been this way. I can’t remember a time when it was not difficult for me to...
Lent is coming. It’s a time of prayer, almsgiving and—what it’s probably most known for—fasting. The week preceding Ash Wednesday, a question pops into the heads of...
Part 1: Forgiveness I stopped making dinner and followed the sounds of screaming into the living room where I came upon yet another knock-down drag-out fight between my two youngest who had, apparently, engaged prison rules. There was some question...
Life is exhausting for overthinkers. Every word we speak, every sentence we write, every action we take, every decision we make has to go through a three-part process....